January 24, 2006
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If it's in the smallprint, you lose!Posted by Rich...! |
If you live in South Africa, there's a good chance you saw Musica's new TV campaign that stated that there was "Nothing over 100" allowed in the store (one hundred rand that is - about $16 or £9)
The ad is cute, it features old people getting bounced from the store, ostensibly because they're over 100 - and there is nothing over 100 allowed in the store.
So on that premise, we went to Musica, we browsed around and eventually chose 6 CDs that we wanted. However when we went to pay we were charged nearly R900, this confused me so I asked why we weren't charged R600 as advertised.
The check-out lady smiled that smile that said that she'd been asked that same question 100 times that day, then she answered, with a little sympathy, that I should have looked at the small print on the TV screen as it said that that was only valid on items marked with a purple sticker.
Of course, not one of the 6 CDs my wife an I chose had that purple sticker, what are the odds?
We paid and left, both feeling conned.
Musica thus may think they won.
Musica are fucking idiots...!
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January 13, 2006
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If you're going to recommend things...Posted by D'ave |
If you have recently updated your iTunes to 6.0.2, you'll find that, among a few other interesting additions, they have added the iTunes store window to the bottom of your music browser. They've done it in such a way that, as soon as you click on an artist or track in the music browser, iTunes looks it up in the store and gives you additional, relevant information about it and things similar. Pretty neat.
Well, it would be if it actually worked. I'm a bit of a music snob, so things like this bother me a little. (Click the thumbnail for a bigger image).
Serart, an eclectic world-music project formed by System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian and Armenian chum, Arto Tuncboyaciyan, in no way falls into the 'electronic' category that iTunes have somehow lumped them into. And they definitely don't have anything to do with that fuckin' 'Crazy Frog'*!
The world is too vast, and information too easily available to group things in wide (eg. Rock) categories.
Just because I like Still Remains, I must love Jack Johnson? According to iTunes, they have something in common. Don't waste my time. I'm sticking to Last.fm (this is my profile. Dig me).
The chances of me trusting any of their further recommendations? Small.
* As a side note, if I ever meet the bastard who started that £%&(%&£! thing, I will hurt him so bad that dying will seem like a nice holiday overseas with an ocean and nice beach. Daniel Malmedahl, I've got your number, mate. Oh, for god's sake... it's actually stuck in my head again.
January 12, 2006
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The ultimate iPod speaker systemPosted by Rich...! |
Move over Bose. Go home Altec Lansing. JBwho?
We got ourselves some Buck action:
Yup, play your tunes and have Buck sing and dance to 'em. Oh, there's also a cordless microphone so you can give your clients a fright.
Now, if only he came in white...!
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January 10, 2006
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See the world, Mac style.Posted by Rich...! |
Damn but it's a good day to be a Mac user.
Especially if like me you've been eagerly awaiting Google Earth for OS X.
Get it while it's hot..!
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The story of the squidoo banana and the blind monkeyPosted by Rich...! |
In Seth Godin's book on web design, "the big red fez" he discusses the need for a banana. A banana is that thing on the page that tells you, unambiguously, what you're supposed to do. No prizes for spotting the banana here:
What if the Seth's monkey didn't recognise the banana though, he'd see it there in front of him, but ignore it, after all, the jungle's a big place. Full of fruit.
Enter Squidoo.
The banana here is/are blatantly obvious, but there's a problem, I have no idea why I'm supposed to pick it, or what I'm supposed to do with it once I do. Sadly it seems, neither do most of the other monkeys.
To me there needs to be a different banana, twice as big as the two above, and that one would say WHY SQUIDOO? (all kinds of irony here). That, I'd click. Then I could make my decision on the buttons shown above.
The banana concept is a very good one, but web designers would do well to remember that it's the monkey's needs that are important, not the tree's...!
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How to advertisePosted by Don |
Saw this on the bathroom wall at Cape Town airport.
- On the right: "GET YOUR BRAND MOVING THIS YEAR. With Digital Screens And Static Framed Ads in Airport Washrooms."
- On the left: A digital screen with an error message.
Must be a new Windows campaign or something...
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More iSquintPosted by D'ave |
Like Rich...!, I too love the little app iSquint. It's helped me convert all of my, ur... music videos (that's it!) and pop them onto my iPod Video with almost zero issue. And to follow his previous post, here are some more personalised messages that the program (Tyler) tickles me with.
If you try to convert an incompatible video (one you can't even play in Quicktime):
If you hit the 'Denial' option:
Fantastic stuff. Can't wait to see what other wünderapps are gonna be scribbled up by this guy in the future.
Many of you aren't chic enough to own a Video yet, so I feel this is partly a service. And I'm showing off.
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